Where The Entrepreneurs and Professionals Meet
April 20th, 2019

Attend one of the leading events for professionals and entrepreneurs in the Bay Area. Meet and network with dynamic entrepreneurs and learn from their success stories. Connect with professionals and explore emerging technologies and career advancement opportunities.

Learn about Emerging Technologies

AI

IOT

Fintech

Autonomous Driving

Blockchain,CloudHealth Care

Learn about the art of getting Funded

VC Funding

Incubators

Angel Funding

Business plansWorkshopsGetting FundingExit Strategies

Achieve Professional Excellence

Media

Advertizing

Social Entrepreneurship

Professional Excellence

Individual ExperiencesNetworking Women and Youth

Attend "Ignite your Passion" OPEN SV Forum.
Learn what you will need to excel in the next decade.

AI is bringing with itself a revolution which will be changing every aspect of our life. From chatbots to AI tools to help you work smarter. It spans every area in technology, Arts, Health, Social Sciences etc. This year we examine core AI and all the areas it touches. We also focus on traditional ways to build companies, get funding, learn how to Network etc. So don't miss the forum this year. It will equip you with what you will need in the coming decade.

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Keynote Speakers

Hear Careem's story and where it is headed. How odds were overcome to become a leading international Transport Network Company.

Mudassir Sheikha

Mudassir Sheikha is the co-founder and CEO of Careem, MENA’s leading car booking service that is based out of Dubai and operates from Morocco to Pakistan. Prior to Careem, Mudassir was an Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company, where he advised clients on strategy and business building. Before McKinsey, Mudassir spent a decade in the Silicon Valley building technology startups, where he was on the founding team of DeviceAnywhere, which was eventually acquired by Keynote Systems.

Learn about personal growth, professional excellence and challanges of running one of the worlds largest Advertizing Operations.

Anwar Akram

Join Anwar Akram, VP Advertising Operations at Google, and learn about his journey, how he started, the path he took, the challenges he faced and the advice he identifies as key to his success. Anwar joined Google in 2007, and since then has been involved in a variety of roles ranging from Sales Operations to his current responsibility as VP of Advertising Operations. His talk will focus on a veriety of things including the challenges he saw over the years and what you need to keep in mind if you want to be successful.

Phil Jaber

Philz Coffee is the unofficial beverage of Silicon Valley and founded by Phil Jaber. It took Phil 7 years to experiment with coffee and come up with it's first blend "Tesora"

Phil Jaber went on a quest 25 years ago to make a really great cup of coffee. He wanted to create a blend that was flavorful, complex, rich, smooth, and low in acidity. His quest took him all over the world and after visiting thousands of coffee shops, Phil created over 30 unique blends. Phil wanted to make sure the coffee making process embodied a personal and social feel, so he designed his own coffee station allowing for every cup to be crafted one cup at a time.

Highlighted Sessions

Unconscious Bias: The Biggest Thing Keeping You from Building the Next Unicorn!

The one thing we almost always forget about is unconscious bias. We may not go after certain market, hires, features or even VC’s - your unconscious bias can keep you from making the right decision to propel your passion into a billion dollar company or getting the next level Job. Session

Smarter, Faster, Less Dilutive Financings… Start in the Boardroom

This panel will provide frank perspectives from the C-suite, boardroom, and investment committee on the teachable moments from these case studies that depict why better governed companies not only make more money… but are also better at raising capital. Session

Fintech the new Silicon

Fintech continues to attract more investment than any other sector. In 2018, a record $100 billion were invested globally. In a not to miss OPEN discussion we will dig deep with an expert panel. Ideas and opinions will flow as we discuss what sells, why it sells, financial inclusion-exclusion and death of traditional banking, the birth of challenger banks, self driving wallets, credit, debit and a world where 3 billion people live for less than $2.5 per day. Session

Healthcare

Roughly every fifty years, healthcare experience significant disruptive changes leading to a health care revolution. The next revolution is now upon us. After decades as a technological laggard, the healthcare industry has entered the digital age. The enabling technology for this transformation fell into place over the past two decades with the emergence of massive, ubiquitous, and increasingly cheap processing power, and more recently, the widespread adoption of electronic health records. These trends — coupled with advances in analytic software, mobile technologies, sensors, and genomic sequencing — have made it possible to capture and analyze vast amounts of information about individual patients, populations, and the environments in which they live. The medical technology field spans a multi-billion dollar market, Entrepreneurial innovation and corporate competitiveness has long been viewed as the key to new discoveries and solutions. Session

AI Today and Tomorrow

AI is now being used across all facets of life and economy. Panel will explore the AI essentials and how it is being used to improve a wide set of business processes and solutions. Session

Emerging Technologies

An essential requirement for knowing where to invest and what to focus on is a roadmap of emerging technologies. Session

Funding Workshop

Naeem Zafar from UC Berkeley, Hass school of Business Management will go over funding principles and how you can fund your ventures. Session

AI in Investing and Market trends

Empower yourself with the knowledge of the future of money management. A proactive panel on the future of money management and how AI will effect it. Is Artificial intelligence (AI) using machine learning as a means of keeping ahead of a rapidly changing marketplace? Will effective applications of AI can help money management, increase profitability, eliminate inefficiencies, and more effectively manage risk? Link